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Speaker 2: We are waiting one hour from right now, the President
Speaker 2: will announce that he is abolishing the Department of Education.
Speaker 2: This department has been around and was founded in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy nine. We have spent a whopping three trillion American
Speaker 2: taxpayer dollars on that agency since it was founded. Education
Speaker 2: scores have only gone down dramatically since then. And I
Speaker 2: want you to understand something. I come at education from
Speaker 2: the vantage point of somebody that believes in God, and
Speaker 2: that believes every man, woman and child on this earth.
Speaker 1: Was created by God.
Speaker 2: And if you look at the root word education from
Speaker 2: the Latin, it's doukadae who bring forth from within the
Speaker 2: little that I remember when I took Latin in school,
Speaker 2: and it means that's predicated on a belief that every
Speaker 2: child has inherently within them talent and ability, and it's
Speaker 2: our job, as loving parents or aunts or uncles or
Speaker 2: neighbors or friends or whatever, who helped them become their
Speaker 2: best self and to find that for which they were
Speaker 2: born and created and whatever talents God gave them, which
Speaker 2: I believe is individualized, just like everybody has their own fingerprint.
Speaker 2: This has been an ongoing problem. It was early in
Speaker 2: the Reagan administration they did a nationwide study. It was
Speaker 2: called a Nation at Risk. It was about the educational
Speaker 2: system in America and What they determined was what has
Speaker 2: happened to America's educational system? Were it done by an
Speaker 2: outside entity or force, in other words, another country, would
Speaker 2: be tantamount to an act of war. I will never
Speaker 2: forget what it said about that they have failed our
Speaker 2: children spectacularly. And you have this un holy alliance which
Speaker 2: is now about to be broken, which needs to be
Speaker 2: broken between Democrats, the Democratic Party that is screaming bloody
Speaker 2: murder today. You know we've got to protect our kids. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you the statistics. What are we
Speaker 2: protecting them from? A failed system? A system that is
Speaker 2: failing on the on the most spectacular level. And I'm
Speaker 2: going to ask all of you maybe to do something
Speaker 2: you know and join me in an experiment and maybe
Speaker 2: just try to think differently. Is there a better way
Speaker 2: to educate our kids? And I'll give you one quick
Speaker 2: example that I think is quite relevant for example, and
Speaker 2: I'll pick New York. And I have a lot of
Speaker 2: other examples that I'll share with you throughout the course
Speaker 2: of the program. Today, the New York Teachers' Union pumped
Speaker 2: school spending to the highest level in the country. They
Speaker 2: pay thirty six thousand dollars per child annually on education,
Speaker 2: yet when you look at the school they are atrocious.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the thirty six hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: three dollars per student is a twenty one percent increase
Speaker 2: from the twenty twenty one school year. According to the
Speaker 2: latest numbers, spending on education you know, has gone up
Speaker 2: of whopping eighty nine billion in New York City school
Speaker 2: districts this academic year, even as enrollment and test scores
Speaker 2: continue to plummet. According to analysis after analysis of the
Speaker 2: eighty nine billion and overall spending, thirty nine comes from
Speaker 2: the state budget. The rest comes from the federal government.
Speaker 2: New York spends more than other states on mostly everything
Speaker 2: from teachers' salaries, benefits, pensions, school construction, services for immigrants
Speaker 2: and non English speakers. I'll interpret that illegal immigrants and
Speaker 2: their children, and of course are trying to even electrify
Speaker 2: school buses, which should not be a part of anything.
Speaker 2: If you look back, the amount of money spent during
Speaker 2: the Biden years has been unbelievably high in terms of
Speaker 2: DEI programs, over one hundred million dollars in the last
Speaker 2: year alone. That is a massive amount of money. So
Speaker 2: what are we getting for this money new York's. New
Speaker 2: York's fourth grade students get more money per student per
Speaker 2: capita than any other city on the face of this earth.
Speaker 2: And they rank thirty two and forty six, thirty second
Speaker 2: in reading and forty six in math. You know, taken
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two eighth graders twenty second in math,
Speaker 2: and again they have more money than any other school district.
Speaker 2: How do you fail that spectacularly? It has to be asked. Now,
Speaker 2: let's do a comparison, shall we, because you might ask, well,
Speaker 2: does higher spending equal better education outcome?
Speaker 1: Again?
Speaker 2: New York is the top spender K through twelve for
Speaker 2: the last two decades, and it remains, you know, near
Speaker 2: the lowest level in terms of educational benchmarks. Let's compare
Speaker 2: a state like Idaho, and they have consistently been the
Speaker 2: lowest spender in the category of educating their children in Idaho,
Speaker 2: but over the last twenty years, Idaho has outperformed New
Speaker 2: York in fourth grade math, eighth grade math, and eighth
Speaker 2: grade reading. Idaho averages just over one third of what
Speaker 2: New York spends year over year. And while the political
Speaker 2: narrative is more funding if you put in through the
Speaker 2: K through twelve system is you're going to have more money,
Speaker 2: better scores. Well, the data actually shows a very different result.
Speaker 2: Each state has different funding models, different itemized budgets, and
Speaker 2: unique challenges. And the overwhelming conclusion is is that there's
Speaker 2: no positive correlation between spending per pupil and average test scores.
Speaker 2: If you look at spending per pupil in public schools
Speaker 2: that averaged nationwide fifteen thousand, six hundred and thirty three dollars.
Speaker 2: That's up eight point nine percent since fiscal year twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. It's not a lack of money. Now, the
Speaker 2: states with the highest pupil spending New York, you know
Speaker 2: which has the state is just just shy at thirty
Speaker 2: thousand dollars, twenty nine eight to seventy three, d C
Speaker 2: twenty seven four to twenty five, New Joysey twenty five thousand,
Speaker 2: ninety nine dollars, Vermont twenty four thousand, six hundred and eight,
Speaker 2: Connecticut twenty four thousand, four hundred and fifty three. New
Speaker 2: York ranked lower than thirty eight jurisdictions, states and districts
Speaker 2: in fourth grade math scores and underneath twelve higher performing
Speaker 2: jurisdictions in eighth grade scores, and if for reading, eight
Speaker 2: jurisdictions ranked higher in fourth grade assessments and three jurisdictions
Speaker 2: ranked significantly higher in the eight grade, and the DC
Speaker 2: in that area it fared even worse. So I'm going
Speaker 2: to ask you to join me in a little experiment here.
Speaker 2: Let's say the federal government were to give twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars per student their share of the educational
Speaker 2: moneies to each individual child, give it to the parent,
Speaker 2: or give it to the school district. Let's just say
Speaker 2: for let's use that as an example. So let's say
Speaker 2: total state federal dollars are thirty thousand dollars per student.
Speaker 2: And let's say that parents then had to say in
Speaker 2: the school districts then had the option of providing choices
Speaker 2: to families as to how that money spent. And let's
Speaker 2: say that there are five families, and five families decide
Speaker 2: to pool their money, and they have thirty thousand dollars each.
Speaker 2: And these five families, all right, so thirty dollars, what's
Speaker 2: what's well, why don't we.
Speaker 1: Make it ten families? All right?
Speaker 2: Make it simple. That's three hundred thousand dollars. That ten
Speaker 2: that that ten children will have allocated to them for education.
Speaker 2: That's three hundred thousand dollars. Now, let's say we use
Speaker 2: all of that money to pay two teachers, and let's
Speaker 2: say you give them myself. So you have one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty thousand dollars to spend on each teacher. Right,
Speaker 2: and each teacher then is assigned five children, and that
Speaker 2: teacher gets a six figure salary. You can provide benefits
Speaker 2: like health insurance, You can provide retirement plans for them,
Speaker 2: so maybe they get a base salary of one hundred
Speaker 2: and ten hundred and twenty thousand. The rest of the
Speaker 2: money is spent on benefit programs, and then five children
Speaker 2: will then be assigned one teacher. And then and you
Speaker 2: put standards associated with it and also benchmarks that must
Speaker 2: be met that a certain bare minimum standard has got
Speaker 2: to be reached for the for the teachers to be
Speaker 2: able to continue in their job, and for these kids
Speaker 2: to have this opportunity or else somehow, there's there's got
Speaker 2: to be some accountability, whatever that accountability is. Now, ask yourself,
Speaker 2: use your basic simple common sense. If if five, if
Speaker 2: you have one teacher for every five kids, and the
Speaker 2: teachers chosen by five parents. What teacher do you think
Speaker 2: these parents are going to choose. They're going to find
Speaker 2: the best teacher that would be capable of teaching these
Speaker 2: kids the bare necessities, because without education, the rungs of
Speaker 2: the latter to life's success are ripped out from underneath them.
Speaker 2: You will not succeed if you don't have these basic
Speaker 2: fundamental skills, and you don't have those skills that are
Speaker 2: necessary to take you to the next level in life,
Speaker 2: you will be shut out and all that God given
Speaker 2: potential will be wasted. And it's been wasted now for
Speaker 2: decades and decades and decades. We have failed these kids spectacularly.
Speaker 2: We have not tapped into the talent, the gifts that
Speaker 2: they were born with. Now, in a small group setting
Speaker 2: like that, what will those teachers? What will parents demand
Speaker 2: that those teachers be insisting that their kids are learning
Speaker 2: maybe reading, writing, math, history, science, computers. I doubt there's
Speaker 2: going to be a lot of talk about being woke
Speaker 2: or transgenderism. Maybe the thing they can add is the
Speaker 2: golden rule. You know, maybe in that environment you'd be
Speaker 2: able to say, love God with all your he arn't mind, body,
Speaker 2: and soul, and treat others the way you want to
Speaker 2: be treated and treat your neighbor as yourself. Now when
Speaker 2: you apply your common sense and that model, which would
Speaker 2: be very doable by eliminating the Department of Education and
Speaker 2: getting rid of this unholy alliance between Democrats and teachers unions,
Speaker 2: because the teachers' unions contribute all this money to the
Speaker 2: Democratic Party and Democratic candidates so they can get elected.
Speaker 2: What will the parents decide and what kids have been
Speaker 2: disproportionately negatively impacted by the failures of our educational system. Well,
Speaker 2: I've got the statistics right here in front of me.
Speaker 2: They're predominantly minority areas in our country. If you look
Speaker 2: at New York City, if you look at DC, if
Speaker 2: you look at Detroit, I've got numbers on Detroit. If
Speaker 2: you look get areas in Los Angeles, if you look
Speaker 2: at areas in San Francisco, if you look at areas
Speaker 2: in Atlanta, disproportionately minority students have been failed at a
Speaker 2: much higher rate than other children. We are hurting our
Speaker 2: minority community. And the question always comes up every election season. Well, demographically,
Speaker 2: we look at you know, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans,
Speaker 2: women in the workplace African American youth. This is where
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party has failed. They go in every two
Speaker 2: and four years asking for votes, and they've gotten them
Speaker 2: in these blue cities town states for decades, and they've
Speaker 2: got nothing in return. There's no law, there's no order,
Speaker 2: there's no safety, there's no security, and there's no education
Speaker 2: for their children.
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to continue.
Speaker 2: So the President will make this announcement which is transformational,
Speaker 2: and it will be the biggest opportunity we have to
Speaker 2: save our children and give them the gift that they deserve,
Speaker 2: the proper education to prepare them for life. How can
Speaker 2: anyone make the argument that education in America is succeeding.
Speaker 2: How do we spend more per capita per child than
Speaker 2: any other country, industrialized country on Earth and have some
Speaker 2: of the worst results. How is it that states to
Speaker 2: spend far less on education do so much better than
Speaker 2: states that spend You know, all these states that spend
Speaker 2: so much on it, they fail, and then states that
Speaker 2: spend so little do so well. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: care if you're talking about Chicago, San Francisco, La, New York,
Speaker 2: d C.
Speaker 1: New Jersey.
Speaker 2: They spend all this money and then you actually break
Speaker 2: it down, and you find that other states like Utah,
Speaker 2: which spends significantly less and fifty two dollars, Idaho nine
Speaker 2: six hundred and seventy, Arizona ten thousand, three hundred and fifteen, Oklahoma, Mississippi,
Speaker 2: et cetera. And fourth grade students, for example, in Utah
Speaker 2: scored much higher on average than those in New York,
Speaker 2: which spends the most. They spend a third of what
Speaker 2: they're spending in New York, less than a third, and
Speaker 2: they're doing better. Idaho second low is spending behind nine
Speaker 2: other states and districts that perform significantly better on fourth grade.
Speaker 2: That's it only massive. I mean all the school districts
Speaker 2: that spend money fail. I'll explain next. I'm twenty five
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Speaker 2: be a part of the program, let me before I
Speaker 2: go any further. And I'm going to give you the
Speaker 2: numbers in the statistics. We have failed our kids spectacularly
Speaker 2: when it comes to the issue of education. We've just
Speaker 2: failed them. And these numbers are staggering. And there was
Speaker 2: a number of years ago in New Jersey a guy
Speaker 2: by the name he was a real life person named
Speaker 2: Joe Clark. I had interviewed Joe Clark. I love Joe Clark.
Speaker 2: He was amazing, actually, And he showed up. It was
Speaker 2: called east Side High and his job was to educate
Speaker 2: these kids and inspire these kids and get rid of
Speaker 2: those people that were interfering in the educational process. And
Speaker 2: he walked around with a bullhorn and a bat in
Speaker 2: the school and I mean and he just raised Holy hell.
Speaker 2: And he took a lot of heat for it, and
Speaker 2: he got the job done. He was able to get
Speaker 2: the kids. He believed in the children, and he got
Speaker 2: their scores up. They did a movie about his life
Speaker 2: and one of the best roles. I think Morgan Freeman's
Speaker 2: one of the best actors. Forget his politics. He's one
Speaker 2: of the best actors by far. Amazing actor with incredible versatility.
Speaker 2: If there's a movie with Morgan Freeman in it, I've
Speaker 2: seen it, and I'm gonna watch it usually again, but
Speaker 2: this became a classic.
Speaker 1: It was lean on me.
Speaker 2: And he assembles the students in one scene an hour
Speaker 2: before they are about to take a state mandated test,
Speaker 2: and it was critical that they get a passing grade,
Speaker 2: something they'd not achieved in a long time. When they
Speaker 2: took their first practice test, it was a disaster. So
Speaker 2: one hour before the test, he gets all the kids
Speaker 2: in the auditorium and this is the speech he gave.
Speaker 3: All right, people, here we are. This is the day.
Speaker 1: In one hour, you are going.
Speaker 3: To take an exam administered by the States to test
Speaker 3: your basic skills and the quality of education at East
Speaker 3: Side High. And I want to tell you what the
Speaker 3: people out there are saying about you and what they
Speaker 3: think about your chances. They say you are inferior. You
Speaker 3: are just a bunch of the poor white trash. Education
Speaker 3: is wasted on you. You cannot learn, You're lost. I
Speaker 3: mean all of you. I want all the white students
Speaker 3: to stand up. All my white students stand up, right now,
Speaker 3: stand up. Come on, all my white students, sign up,
Speaker 3: sign up. I said tomorrow, stand up. These are my
Speaker 3: white children, and they're the same as all of you.
Speaker 3: They've got no place to go. If they had, they
Speaker 3: would have abandoned us a long time ago like everybody
Speaker 3: else did.
Speaker 1: But they couldn't.
Speaker 3: So here they are at east Side High, just like
Speaker 3: the rest of us. You can sit down. Are you
Speaker 3: getting my point? People? Is the beginning to.
Speaker 2: Sink inn.
Speaker 3: We sink, we swim, we rise, we fall, we meet
Speaker 3: our saint together. Now it took the help of a good,
Speaker 3: good friend. Make me know and understand that. And I
Speaker 3: do understand it, and I'm grateful.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be grateful.
Speaker 3: And now I've got a message for those people out
Speaker 3: there who've abandoned you and written you off. Can you
Speaker 3: hear me? Can you hear me? Good? You are not
Speaker 3: in syrial. Your grades may be, your school may have been,
Speaker 3: but you can turn that around and make liars out
Speaker 3: of those dudes. And exactly what hour test and pass it?
Speaker 3: And we Well, here's what I want you to do
Speaker 3: when you find your minds wondering. I want you to
Speaker 3: knuckle back down and concentrate, concentrate, remember what's at stake,
Speaker 3: and show them what he said. High it is all about.
Speaker 3: I'll spend it, will not die.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you haven't watched it, it's worth it.
Speaker 2: Then I'll pull it upon Apple TV and going back
Speaker 2: and watching it, and I go back to New York
Speaker 2: thirty six thousand dollars per student, twenty one percent increase
Speaker 2: since the twenty twenty one school year, and they have
Speaker 2: fewer students by about fifteen to eighteen percent. They have
Speaker 2: a thirty five percent truancy rate. And then you look
Speaker 2: at the results fourth grade thirty second and forty six
Speaker 2: thirty second and reading forty six, the math eighth grade
Speaker 2: to twenty second in math. Gee, they got a little better,
Speaker 2: big deal more per capita per student than any other
Speaker 2: city in the entire country. And they've been the top
Speaker 2: spender for two decades. You can't institutionalize failure like this
Speaker 2: and all the states to spend all this money because
Speaker 2: there's no positive correlation between spending and pupil and average
Speaker 2: scores by the states. New York, d C, New Jersey, Vermont,
Speaker 2: Connecticut the highest spenders anywhere between, you know, thirty thousand
Speaker 2: plus to twenty five thousand dollars. And you look at
Speaker 2: the lowest spending states Utah nine five hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: two dollars per pupil Idaho nine thousand, six hundred and seventy,
Speaker 2: Arizona ten thousand, three hundred and fifteen, Oklahoma ten thousand,
Speaker 2: eight hundred and ninety, Mississippi ten thousand, nine hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty four. The kids in Utah, the lowest spending of
Speaker 2: any any state in the country, scored much higher on
Speaker 2: average than those in New York and only you know,
Speaker 2: I think DC and Massachusetts and had I'm sorry, only
Speaker 2: I can't read this anyway. Massachusetts had higher you know,
Speaker 2: test scores eighth grade math. Only one jurisdiction ranked significantly
Speaker 2: higher than Utah, the low the lowest spend and Idaho
Speaker 2: does significantly better with with one third of the money
Speaker 2: one third. Los Angeles fifty four to four percent of
Speaker 2: their expenses spend on teacher salaries, employee benefits to a
Speaker 2: majority of the money spent is not going to students.
Speaker 2: We learned under the Biden years, the Biden Education Department
Speaker 2: spend over one hundred million dollars on DEI, anti racist
Speaker 2: social workers for K twelve schools. This is madness. We
Speaker 2: are failing these kids spectacularly. According to the US Census Bureau,
Speaker 2: LA unified spent twenty two thousand per student.
Speaker 1: And they're not doing well either.
Speaker 2: You know, forty seven percent of students that's it that
Speaker 2: met or exceeded the grade level on English standards, and
Speaker 2: matho was only thirty four percent. This is institutional failure.
Speaker 2: They spend nearly twenty four thousand student in San Francisco
Speaker 2: forty six only forty six percent past their grade math level.
Speaker 2: In Atlanta, they spend nearly twenty three thousand per student
Speaker 2: per year. Only thirty six percent of students read at
Speaker 2: the third grade level. Only thirty just over thirty percent
Speaker 2: of students are proficient in math. Want to talk about
Speaker 2: a disaster, Let's go to Detroit, Michigan. They spend twenty
Speaker 2: one thousand, seven hundred and seventy one dollars per student
Speaker 2: a year. Sixteen percent of those students in the Detroit
Speaker 2: Public Schools Community District tested proficient in English language arts.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four. Ten point five percent of students
Speaker 2: were proficient tested in math ten percent. What are we
Speaker 2: getting for our money? Let three parents pull the money,
Speaker 2: hire a private tutor, five parents hire a private teacher.
Speaker 2: In Baltimore, sixty five percent of public schools earn the
Speaker 2: lowest possible scores on Maryland's report cards sixty five percent.
Speaker 2: You have those thirteen public schools we've discussed for many times,
Speaker 2: not a single kid proficient in math or reading, not one.
Speaker 2: You know, if you look at you know the data
Speaker 2: they found. Sixty five percent of Baltimore City's one hundred
Speaker 2: and forty eight rated schools earned one or two stars,
Speaker 2: the lowest possible ratings. Every year, thirteen hundred public schools
Speaker 2: in the state of Maryland are rated based on performance.
Speaker 2: Each school receives a star. Baltimore City as by far
Speaker 2: the highest percentage of one or two star schools in
Speaker 2: the state, and more than double the next highest district
Speaker 2: in the region, Baltimore County, of twenty seven point six percent.
Speaker 2: You can't fail this badly if you look at Illinois Chicago.
Speaker 2: Spending nearly doubles and the scores they didn't go up,
Speaker 2: they dropped. Has scores academic performance continue to drop Since
Speaker 2: twenty twelve, Spending has gone up of wopping ninety seven percent.
Speaker 2: Reading proficiency went down sixty three percent. Math proficiency spent
Speaker 2: seventy eight percent. They doubled the money and they've gone
Speaker 2: down sixty three and seventy eight percent respectively. You know,
Speaker 2: three quarters of these students can't read a grade level,
Speaker 2: even fewer can do math a grade level. And what
Speaker 2: is the Chicago Teachers' union leadership? What do they want?
Speaker 2: A new contract with a list of costly demands that
Speaker 2: have nothing to do with improving academic performance of students
Speaker 2: and everything to do with politics. That's the holy alliance
Speaker 2: between teachers' unions and the Democratic Party. Democrats screaming, bloody murders,
Speaker 2: save our kids, Save our kids from what We're saving
Speaker 2: our kids by saving this system from institutional failure. That's
Speaker 2: why I'm asking people think out of the box, approach
Speaker 2: something differently. When you're failing at this level, you have
Speaker 2: got to make adjustments. You have got to do a
Speaker 2: course correction. This has been needed now almost since the
Speaker 2: beginning Department of Education bounded in nineteen seventy nine. Reagan
Speaker 2: has during his term of Landmarks Study and Nation at Risk.
Speaker 2: What has happened to the educational system in America were
Speaker 2: done by an outside entity or force would be tantamount
Speaker 2: to an act of war. Wow, that's how bad this is.
Speaker 2: New Jersey's educational system is garbage to per pupil spending
Speaker 2: has steadily increased per student now nearly now over twenty
Speaker 2: six thousand per year. Their performance eh minimal gains next
Speaker 2: to nothing. You know, the National Assessment fourth and eighth graders,
Speaker 2: at least a third of America's students failed to demonstrate
Speaker 2: basic reading skills expected for their age group. Only sixty
Speaker 2: seven percent of eighth graders are able to meet or
Speaker 2: exceed basic skills. On the twenty twenty four test, only
Speaker 2: sixty percent of fourth graders were able to meet basic
Speaker 2: skills levels. And let me tell you about those tests.
Speaker 2: They are not the end.
Speaker 1: All be all. I mean, this is the bare minimum.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: We spend three trillion dollars since the founding of the
Speaker 2: Department of Education, and education scores have only gone down.
Speaker 2: We spend more money than any industrialized country in the
Speaker 2: world with the worst results. Why did Joe Biden's Department
Speaker 2: of Education spend one hundred million dollars on grants to
Speaker 2: schools meant to train K through twelve social workers on
Speaker 2: critical race theory, social justice, diversity, equity inclusion. When these
Speaker 2: kids can't read, write, do math, science, history or whatever
Speaker 2: history they're learning, or learn computers which is a skill
Speaker 2: they're going to need in their life, not that hard.
Speaker 2: So the President is going to abolish the Department of Education,
Speaker 2: and they're going to put standards in place, and there's
Speaker 2: going to be accountability for the money that is given it,
Speaker 2: which needs to be done. And they're going to be
Speaker 2: screaming on the left bloody murder. But the screaming ought
Speaker 2: to be from parents, especially the parents of children in
Speaker 2: predominantly minority school districts who have been disproportionately negatively impacted
Speaker 2: by this institutional failure. And for people that say, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, they buy into the every year, every two
Speaker 2: to four years, you hear republic as are racist, as sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, transphobic, phobic, phobic, phobic,
Speaker 2: They want dirty air and water and kill grandma and grandpa. No,
Speaker 2: that's not what they want. We believe in economic we
Speaker 2: believe in educational excellence. We can turn this around if
Speaker 2: the kids are given the right education, if the kids
Speaker 2: are given an opportunity to learn, if we change the
Speaker 2: paradigm otherwise, you know, what is the definition of insanity?
Speaker 2: You just do the same thing over and over and
Speaker 2: over again, and you expect a different result. You're not
Speaker 2: getting a different result unless you change the system. The
Speaker 2: President's going to make his announcement expected at four o'clock.
Speaker 2: We'll cover live here on this show, and we'll see
Speaker 2: where that's going. We have the other news of the
Speaker 2: day we'll get to we'll get to your calls as well.
Speaker 2: Eight hundred and ninety four one, Shawn is our number.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: President Trump about to take to the nation and announce
Speaker 2: his remarks on education and the abolishment of the Department
Speaker 2: of Education. I do believe that means block ranning money
Speaker 2: in the States, maybe a school voucher component to it
Speaker 2: with standards.
Speaker 1: But we'll carry that live straight ahead.